Death Penalty

A Ravalli County man accused of kidnapping, brutally raping and injecting a young girl with methamphetamine over several days in February, could possibly face the death penalty.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by four death row inmates who challenged a new Ohio law that shields the names of companies providing lethal injection drugs.

Montana lawmakers are again considering a bill that would abolish the death penalty and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without parole.

President Barack Obama says the botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate highlights significant problems with the death penalty and he's asking his attorney general for a review.

A judge has scheduled a November hearing to decide whether a Colorado man charged with killing an eastern Montana teacher should be declared ineligible for the death penalty.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The state is seeking the death penalty in the case of a Montana State Prison inmate charged with killing a fellow inmate by cutting his throat. The Attorney General's office confirmed Thursday that the state filed notice in District Court in Powell County Tuesday in the deliberate homicide case against Clyde Ervin Cosner...

A bi-partisan group of state legislators have teamed up to support House Bill 370, a bill that, if passed, would eliminate the death penalty in Montana and replace the punishment with life in prison without the possibility of parole.

An examination of the arguments against the death penalty.

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A judge has decided a Fort Hood shooting suspect still can face the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation.

A legal victory for death penalty foes in Montana could be short-lived.